Meyongdeok Crab Festival- 13 March 2011

So it has taken me two weeks to get this blog up and entered but hey I am now sharing the festival with you. We went to a crab festival two weeks ago and had a great time. We will probably go again next year but not on the bus! The bus ride took about 2 hours and we had 4 bus loads of people going. When we got to Myeonkdeok we had a buffet style lunch with the mayor and the food was great! We did think that that there would be crab on the buffet but nope, just normal Korean goodies! After lunch we went across the street to the festival area and got to watch a talent show. There were some from our group who went up on stage and danced then participated in the talent show.  There were lots of booths around: face painting, soap making, soju tasting, mask making and lot of places to get crabs. Zane did get his face painted and smeared it just shortly after. We got a tour of the maritime museum and then got to fish for crabs. We did catch 4 crabs but didn't buy any extra to bring home and cook. We didn't get to cook our crabs the night we brought them home as we didn't have a steamer for just 4 crabs. We didn't feel like firing up the turkey fryer. We did cook them the next night and the first two weren't so good, not sure if they went bad or the cook didn't know what she was doing. It was my first time cooking them after all. We did get one out of the four to eat and I was the only one to eat the crab. Jim doesn't like picking them apart and I didn't want to take any chances with Zane getting sick if the crab was bad! After living in Baltimore for so many years I was missing crabs and excited to have these. One of these days I will get back to B-more for a bushel of crabs with friends! Here are just a few of the pictures, hop enjoy enjoy them!- So I will try to post pictures later, right now the network drive isn't cooperating!